All of ReBOOT’s recycling services are provided completely free – and this includes collections, recycling audits, and data sanitation. ReBOOT also helps people to understand the important issues around ethical disposal of IT waste and the massive environmental and economic benefits of choosing to use refurbished hardware.

Securing larger commercial and public sector contracts have been critical to ReBOOT’s long-term sustainability and success, enabling the organisation to shift from being a grant-reliant charity to self-financing social enterprise.

When Fujitsu carried out a major upgrade of Highland Council’s IT equipment 10 years ago, the technology firm contracted ReBOOT to reuse and recycle the old hardware. This set a precedent for ReBOOT to secure similar contracts in the future – more recently, with a major Aberdeen-based energy company, a relationship that was sparked at a tsiMORAY event.

Today ReBOOT generates some 90% of its income through trade. Any grant money it receives goes towards ensuring ReBOOT’s long-term sustainability.

ReBOOT currently employs six staff who oversee operations, and it has 30+ volunteers including vulnerable/supported individuals.

The enterprise prioritises developing local skills, and has eight paid trainees working with its teams – through programmes such as Community Jobs Scotland, Kickstart and others who connect with the team via community payback, and school or college placements.

ReBOOT recently signed up to the Young Persons Guarantee via Developing the Young Workforce, it is a Disability Confident employer, and it plans to further support the breaking down of barriers working with the Social Enterprise Academy on the Wide Horizons project. 

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